Making Humans Learn with a click - just like Pavlov’s Dog?
What if I told you that it is not too difficult to teach humans to learn things? What if it means that, as a student, you are not simply required to sit in a classroom to learn about something new, but you can be made to learn new things like how to perform something as complicated as an orthopedic procedure by hearing a whistle or a clicking sound be made? Just like they train dolphins in Disneyland!
This is not bizarre science or voodoo magic.
Recently, NPR carried a podcast on how Pavlov’s methods of teaching his dog new tricks is equally applicable to humans. You can check out the full podcast here below directly from NPR.
Before you begin to think that this is weird science, stop. Just read about plants having brains and doing things that we honestly do not expect them to do!
In a podcast about “Smarty Plants”, NPR’s Radiolab discusses an honestly intelligent and brainy behavior of plants. IN a discussion with a home inspection duo, a science writer and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, they note that plants somehow behave in bizarre ways where roots go seeking directions in which not only water exists, but even the sound of water played through an mp3 player! Do plants have ears? Have brains?
Read on.
In fact, plants might be on to something that we have not understood 100%.
They may be onto something that we need to learn about how we can learn as human beings as well.
The podcast below on Indiana Public Radio talks about how plants, just like Pavlov’s dog, learned to grow in the direction of light, even though only the stimulating breeze of a small fan was provided with no light!
The bottom-line?
There is no limit to what you can learn or how you can learn. Just watch the plants. It should be a breeze!
